Trick to discourage potential spammers registration

[tarasbulba]

Hi ,I just discover a trick that discourage spammers to register in your forum. There are many spammers that register on a phpbb forum just to put their website or to add links in profile. To Avoid this you only have to edit your template profile_add_body.tpl and just delete (ie)

[tarasbulba]

I would like from someone with more experience to tell me if that trick has any disadvantages.
Thanks

[HB]

There's lots of MOD variants of this same idea on phpBB.com. For what it's worth, I hide it for guests and encourage members in good standing to use their signatures instead for blogs, etc. I've installed a few of the anti-spam mods and rarely see an automated registration (a few a year?).

[dcz]

The better captcha mod can be a good one with phpBB2.

Simple and efficient to fight against automated registrations so far.

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